High quality rip of The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, a movie that was very popular in the late 80s on VHS, featuring Orson Welles commenting on the prophecies of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus). As far as I can tell this was only ever released on VHS, if a better copy (say Laserdisc) can be sourced I will attempt to find it and transfer it. 

This movie is weird man. They bring out a lady who claims to have predicted the Kennedy assassination and near the end they predict some kind of Neo Hitler from the middle east on a set that looks like Battlestar Galactica. Orson makes it work though, because he is the man. Welles himself apparently panned the movie after making it on The Merv Griffin Show.

The same director, Robert Guenette, also wrote a movie called The Defector with Montgomery Clift, and made a different movie in a similar vein about Cryptids.

Encoding Methodology

The tape was captured using a Domesday Duplicator. Deinterlacing, cropping and resizing was done in Vapoursynth using VITVC (inverse telecine, since the source appears to be film). The Domesday Duplicator extracted a pure RF signal, which was then compressed down to a FLAC. FLAC was then converted to two TBC files, which I then converted to an interlaced, archival quality FFV1 file. Audio is from the tape was captured and muxed in 16 bit FLAC using the output of the deck into a Babyface Pro FS.

For more information on the project, check it out here:

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/

x264 encoding strings:

--demuxer y4m --profile high --preset placebo  --crf 16 --merange 32 --qcomp 0.75 --no-mbtree   --level 4.1 --range tv --colorprim smpte170m --transfer smpte170m --colormatrix smpte170m --threads 8  -o "{sd}\Projections.mkv" -

Additional Comments

Orson Welles' later career is bizarre to say the least, including but not limited to a movie shot in Yugoslavia with Richard Burton starring as Tito. But this movie in particular, like the Japanese Prophecies of Nostradamus, had a weird influence on the people that watched it. Who knows how many conspiracy nuts got their start with this movie? The world may never know. 

Best,

Chris Person